Doctrinal Contradictions

[SlackTime]

Although I have previously registered my discomfort at the LDS tendency to label the directives of God to Adam and Eve in the Garden as "conflicting commandments," thinking about this subject has caused me to revisit that subject.

What if they were in fact "conflicting"?

Is this story teaching us that growth and wisdom come about through such conflict and/or contradiction?

All the Best!

Consiglieri

I think you have found some wisdom here. Something often noted by the reader of Histories of the Church is that Joseph Smith never received a revelation which did not spring from a question, problem, concern, that he had or someone brought to him. Without questions, there is no need to ponder for an answer, and no reason to seek after the Lord's guidance.

Certainly there are contradictions between doctrine and culture. And there may even be contradictions between teaching and doctrine. There are certainly contradictions between teaching and teaching even from the same source speaker. Using those seeming contradictions to frame good questions which can be pondered and taking to the Lord, generate excellent opportunities to grow.

- SlackTime

[Bill “Papa” Lee]

So, this God, who is supposedly a God of order who cannot be any other way, puts His religions in a state of constant confusion because ... it can't be any other way?

1 Cor. 13: 12

12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

I think it is inevitable.